Traveling With Paint: Climate Matters

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Art supplies take up a surprisingly large portion of my luggage. The one sensible reason for this is that I usually end up painting in a variety of locations, and I have found that different paints handle differently in different climates. And, as shown above, some do not travel well at all. I have not done … Read more

Travel Camera Roll: Vancouver

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I actually lived in Vancouver for half of 2024 (regular readers of the blog will recall me confidently declaring that I was moving permanently!), but I took fewer photos than I normally would on a trip or even in everyday life during that period. So I’m calling this a “travel camera roll.” The photos that are exclusive to this post have been taken on a quick administrative post-move trip in January 2025; the others are reposted from Unsplash or previous blog posts.

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An Introduction

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Hello! My name is Hanna, and I have been an avid reader of watercolour blogs for several years. I am writing this one to, er, give back to the community. I currently have two main hobbies: painting, and obsessing about painting supplies. Luckily, there is a lot of overlap (I actually use up some of … Read more

Announcing Hanna!

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Until now, this has been my personal blog: I, Logan, am the only person to write for it, except a single guest post. That guest post was written by Hanna, a fellow watercolor enthusiast who I met from comments on the blog. We bonded over a shared love of pigments, and Hanna is a frequent … Read more

Mix Your Own Indanthrone Blue Lookalike

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Normally when I do mix-your-own lookalike posts, I try to find dupes for paints I don’t want in my palette. Either the paint has some textural problem I don’t like, or it’s too limited in use case to earn a spot on my palette, and I want to figure out an alternative means of mixing the hue so I can feel free to cut it. But I love Indanthrone Blue (PB60), and it’s an important part of almost any palette I create. So why try to dupe it?

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Travel Camera Roll: Halifax 2022

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Since I’ve been doing my camera roll inspo posts, I’ve noticed I often collect larger numbers of photos from travel because the sights are novel to me. The photos may not be great, but they each show some aspect of place that I want to remember, and that I would combined to use if painting that location. So I’ve decided to sequester unused “possible future reference photos” from each trip into its own post.

These photos are from the Halifax, Nova Scotia area, fall 2022. More on this trip can be found in my post Travel Sketches: Nova Scotia.

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Spring Palette 2025

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Another season, another palette! I’ve been doing very little studio painting but a fair amount of plein air sketching this month, so I’ve been able to adapt my colors to what works for me in the field. I thought I would take you on a little journey showing what I started with, what changes I made, and why.

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